From NPR News
The first thing to realize about financial advice is that it’s not free — and it often costs more than you think. That’s what Morra Aarons-Mele found when she decided to find a financial adviser after she inherited an IRA from her father.
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Comfortable with technology and skeptical of Wall Street, a growing number of young investors have turned to low-fee automated financial advisers for help saving for retirement.
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Americans collectively are losing billions of dollars a year out of their retirement accounts because they’re paying excessive fees, according to researchers studying thousands of employer-sponsored retirement plans across the country.
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For the third time this decade, millions of Americans will not see an annual cost-of-living increase next year, the Obama administration announced Thursday.
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When it comes to health savings accounts and the so-called Cadillac tax on expensive health plans, the questions just keep coming. And what do you do about adding grandchildren to a health plan? Let’s tackle that one, too.
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America’s retirement statistics are grim: About 40 percent of baby boomers have nothing saved for retirement, about a third of Americans who are currently retired rely on Social Security for almost all of their income, and the outlook for current workers isn’t much better. About half of private sector employees have no retirement plan on the job.
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He’s been at it for 45 years. Wake up before 2 a.m. Turn on the fryer. And have the glazed doughnuts and peanut-topped coffeecakes ready by 6 a.m.
Yup, Michael Doucleff Sr. is a baker and small-business owner in Alton, Ill.
At at age 70, he doesn’t show many signs of slowing down. He’s still working more than 40 hours a week, still carrying 50-pound bags of flour upstairs from the basement.
From The Sacramento Bee
Of all the negative financial surprises that can hit in retirement, learning a “guaranteed” pension could be severely cut is among the worst.
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There has been a profound — and positive — change since 1990 in how people die around the world, a new study shows. “We’ve made great progress in reducing the risks of maternal and child health, diarrhea, pneumonia, though there’s still more work to be done,” says Dr. Alan Lopez, author of a global analysis of risk factors of death published this week in the journal The Lancet. Since 1990, childhood malnutrition and unsafe water have fallen off the top 10 causes of death around the world.
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There’s never a shortage of questions about Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older and some who are disabled. Here are answers to two about respite care and the so-called doughnut hole that limits payments for drugs in Medicare Part D.
